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What brings the director of the Guggenheim to a city in southern China?

“Jealousy,” says Richard Armstrong with a twinkle in his eye. The New York-based director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, in Hong Kong to launch an exhibition sponsored by Swiss bank UBS, pointed to the city’s energy and dynamism, its aesthetic beauty—“its physical arrangement is almost without parallel”—and its particular light, which he described as having “almost a marine quality.”

He spoke to the Journal about talks about the West’s interest in Asia, the irrelevance of high culture, and why opening a museum is a fanatical pursuit. Read More »